Menschenrechte und Menschenwürde. Eine Studie zu ihrem Verhältnis im deutsch-britischen Vergleich, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der ethischen und rechtlichen Probleme am Lebensbeginn

本文试图考察德、英两国关于人权与人的尊严的关系的讨论：人的尊严是人权的基础，还是人权保障人的尊严的价值，从而使人的尊严成为人权的一个方面？为了研究这个问题，我计划把重点放在人类生命开始时的伦理和法律的问题上-例如PGD，干细胞研究，克隆等。在这种情况下，决定性的问题之一将是人类生命何时开始，特别是受精后第14天之前的非常年轻的胚胎是否是人类的问题。为了找到一个适当的答案，不同的哲学，伦理，神学和司法立场将进行讨论和比较。本研究的目的是弄清楚"人的尊严"一词是否有助于当代国际复杂的生物伦理讨论，它植根于什么样的基础上，以及对生物伦理问题的公共辩论有什么影响。目前，当人们对重要的生物伦理政治决定感到不安全时，似乎有必要在国际范围内讨论这些问题，以帮助彼此找到自己的、反映的立场。我坚信，神学伦理学在这场辩论中发挥着重要作用，一个跨学科的国际网络将对我们在21世纪必须面对的问题起决定性作用。

My study tries to examine the relation of human rights to human dignity in the German and British discussion: Is human dignity the foundation of human rights, or do human rights guarantee the worth of human dignity, so that human dignity is an aspect of human rights? To investigate the question, I plan to focus on ethical and legal problems at the beginning of human life - e.g. PGD, stem cell research, cloning etc. One of the decisive questions in this context will be when human life begins, especially the question if a very young embryo before the fourteenth day after fertilisation is a human being or not. To find an adequate answer, different philosophical, ethical, theological und juridical positions will be discussed and compared. The aim of the study is to figure out whether the term "human dignity" could be helpful in the contemporary international complex bioethical discussion, in which ground it is rooted and which implications there are for the public debate on bioethical issues. Currently, when people feel insecure about important bioethical political decisions, it seems to be necessary to discuss the problems in an international context to help each other to find to an own, reflected position. I am firmly convinced that theological ethics play an important role for the debate, and an interdisciplinary and international network would be decisive for the problems we have to face in the 21st century.